Stocking



Patented Dec. 1, 1953 STOCKING Kurt F. Naumann, Stun signer to Rosedale Knit Pa., a corporation of Pe y Creek Mills, Pa., asting Company, Reading, nnsylvania Application July 28, 1950, Serial N 0. 176,313

1 Claim.

This invention relates to stockings. More specifically, it is concerned with a stocking produced from synthetic yarn or yarns, such as nylon, which are non-absorbent and therefore do not have the capacity to dissipate the moisture as the foot of the wearer perspires in the shoe, particularly in the region of the large toe joint or ball of the foot.

My invention is directed toward overcoming the above mentioned drawback. How this objective is realized in practice will appear from the following detailed description of the attached drawings, wherein:

Fig. 1 is a view in side elevation of a full-fashioned ladys stocking conveniently embodying my invention;

Fig. 2 shows the fore part of the foot of the fiat-knitted blank from which the stocking is formed; and

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary diagrammatic view showing the yarn interloopment in the ball region of the blank within the area of the broken line rectangle III in Fig. 2.

The illustrated stocking is generally of well known construction, and it is to be understood, 3's knitted throughout from nylon or like synthetic yarn or yarns, except as hereinafter pointed out, with a boot portion 5 that tapers downwardly to the ankle 6, and with a foot 1 of which latter the heel 8, the portion 9 of the sole and the toe H] are reinforced, the reinforcement terminating in lines #2 and i3 contoured to produce what is ordinarily known as a cradle efiect.

To knit the portions in the foot between the courses A-A and BB in Figs. 1 and 2 in the region of the ball of the foot, in accordance with my invention I employ for the top or instep area it, a nylon yarn which may be the main body yarn used in the other parts of the stocking, and for the formation of the sole areas of the blank at said region, I employ absorbent yarns of cotton or the like preferably of a higher count than said nylon yarn. In the knitting, the nylon yarn is fed from one carrier, and the cotton yarns individually from separate carriers. The traverse of the carriers is so controlled that selvage loops of the nylon yarn are interlocked, as shown in Fig. 3, with selvage loops of the cotton yarns along inwardly curved sutures i 5, with consequent formation of gussets or panels 16 of liberal area at the ball region of the stocking foot. The toe portion it of the foot, beyond the course B B, may be formed in a way commonly practiced in the art and therefore requires no description. selvage edges of the blank are united by the usual back seam, the areas I6 will be merged into one to form a section of the cradle sole reinforcement. By reason of being of cotton. the areas It at the ball of the stocking foot Will efiectively absorb perspiration and carry it up to the level of the shoe top where it may freely evaporate when the stocking is Worn.

As will be readily understood by skilled knitters, the substitution of cotton yarn carriers for the usual reinforcing nylon carriers to form the patches I 6 can be effected produced substantially as economically as ordinary stockings in which the foot is reinforced throughout the sole with nylon yarns.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

As a new article of manufacture, a full-fashioned stocking with a closure seam extending longitudinally of the back of the leg and foot bottom, produced mainly from non-absorbent yarn, and having, at opposite sides of the seam in the region of the ball portion of the foot, comple- KURT F. NAUMANN. References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,664,805 Ballard Apr. 3, 1928 1,941,171 Hamel Dec. 26, 1933 2,251,268 Clawson Aug. 5, 1941 FOREIGN PA IENTS Number Country Date 124,713 Australia July 10, 1947 

